An Amtrak passenger train collided with a freight train in South Carolina with reports of at least two people dead and over 50 others injured, according to the rail company. (Image courtesy of CNN, Google Maps and YouTube)

By Meg Kinnard, Associated Press and ABC News

A crash between an Amtrak passenger train and a CSX freight train in South Carolina on Sunday killed two people and injured about 70 others, authorities said.

The Amtrak train was heading from New York to Miami with about 140 people on board when the crash happened around 2:45 a.m. near Cayce, authorities said.

The injuries ranged from cuts and scratches to broken bones, Lexington County spokesman Harrison Cahill said.

(An Amtrak passenger train collided with a freight train in South Carolina with reports of at least two people dead and over 50 others injured, according to the rail company. Courtesy of CNN and YouTube. Posted on Feb 4, 2018)

Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher said the two people killed were traveling on the Amtrak train.

The lead engine and several passenger cars derailed on Amtrak 91, which was operating from New York to Miami.

There were eight crew members and approximately 140 passengers on board, Amtrak said.

The crash happened near a stretch of tracks by a rail yard about 10 miles (16 kilometers) south of Columbia, where several track spurs split off for freight cars to be unloaded.

Authorities said they haven’t determined if both trains were moving or if the Amtrak train was diverted on to a side track.

On Wednesday, a train carrying Republican members of Congress to a retreat in West Virginia collided with a garbage truck. One person on the truck was killed.

(After an Amtrak train crashed into a garbage truck on the tracks, lawmakers on board with medical experience rushed to rescue as many people as they could. Among them was Kansas Congressman Roger Marshall, who initially thought the train was being hijacked. One person died in the collision. He’s been identified as 28-year-old Christopher Foley, a passenger in the garbage truck. Courtesy of InsideEdition and YouTube posted on Feb 1, 2018)